A family today remains in shock after men broke into their Pembroke home and demanded cash and gold while holding a firearm to the father’s head.Sidaine Mayho was alone with his two-year-old son when two men brandishing a firearm and a knife brazenly entered their home early Wednesday afternoon.Mr Mayho and his wife Khadija Brown are now planning to move from the Clarke’s Lane apartment they’ve lived in for almost two years.Ms Brown told The Royal Gazette her husband has not returned to the premises since the break-in.He and their three children their toddler, an 11-year-old and a seven-year-old moved in with a relative.Ms Brown said her husband was left traumatised after the burglars prodded him with a kitchen knife and pressed a gun to his temple.“My husband is a very protective person,” she said.“For this to have been done with our child here, that was the traumatic part. Our other two children were not at home, thank God.”She continued: “My husband doesn’t ever want to come back to this house. I didn’t want to either, but it’s my comfort zone. I know if I had been here when it happened, I would feel the same.”Ms Brown said she missed walking in on the attack by a matter of minutes.The men broke into the apartment around 1pm; she arrived at 1.20pm and found her husband and son Safwan in shock. She said of the attack: “Two people just walked right into the house, because the front door was unlocked a friend of my husband’s had just left to get lunch.“Two men came straight in and pointed a firearm at him. One of them picked up a knife. They told him, ‘Give us the gold and give us the money’. He said, ‘What gold? What money? I don’t have either’. One of them came up and pushed the gun right into his temple and told him, ‘Don’t make us kill you in front of your youth’. They asked specifically for the jar with the gold. My husband had a little Folgers [coffee] jar for his gold. They knew what they were looking for.”The men ransacked the entire house, Ms Brown said.“They emptied out everything, took our rent money from his drawer, took the brand new laptop computer, the PlayStation 3. They made him empty his pockets. They went through the kitchen looking for a bag, then just walked out the door and told him they’d be back. Then they ran up the hill.”The thieves took the house phone with them. Ms Brown and her husband were able to retrieve an old telephone, which they used to call police. A forensic officer spent the afternoon dusting for fingerprints; the kitchen knife used to threaten Mr Mayho was discovered in a closet.Ms Brown, a Muslim, said: “I’ve lived in Los Angeles, in Egypt and Malaysia and Sudan, places where stuff like this does happen on a regular basis. Sure, I hear about things going on around the Island, but to have it happen to us is very upsetting.”Ms Brown said she has spent much of her life in countries that share her faith. She returned to Bermuda nine years ago.The family moved into the one-bedroom apartment overlooking North Shore in August of 2009. “We never had trouble here before,” Ms Brown said.As she surveyed the floor, where her family’s possessions were still scattered yesterday, Ms Brown struggled to come to terms with the attack.“You never know what someone is going through in their life,” she said. “We are struggling, we feel oppressed, but there are certain things that our moral compasses won’t allow us to do. But you don’t really know about someone else, friend or no friend, who might need what you have and just come take it. I think many people don’t even know themselves, until they do it.”The narrow residential road is close to neighbourhoods that gangs have marked as their territories.Ms Brown said she had little time for socialising and was not acquainted with “anyone in any gang, or any of the people who have been shot”. She said of her family’s experience: “I just thought it was very bold. These are young guys in broad daylight.”It had been difficult for the family to share such cramped quarters, she said. “I was thinking we would hold off, give it a little bit of time. Rent is so ridiculous in Bermuda. But it’s time to go out again.”Police are continuing to investigate the attack. The suspects are described as brown-skinned, about 6ft and in their early 20s.One man had dreads or braids and wore a hat and scarf with a hooded jacket. The other had short hair, green eyes, and was wearing a white T-shirt and jeans. Anyone with information is asked to call the Hamilton Criminal Investigation Unit on 295-0011.